Unlike any memoir you've ever read.
As absurd as it is devastating.
A literal tug of war between competing and compelling versions of the truth.
Uriel Through Eleanor
by Brian Prousky
Genre: Historical Fiction
Uriel “Uri” Katz, World War Two veteran, concentration camp
liberator, devout atheist, contrarian, cynic and lifelong bachelor,
places an ad in a newspaper seeking a “typist” to assist him in
writing his memoir and receives only one reply, from a woman, named
Eleanor, who negotiates a deal with him that includes room and
board.
Within days of her arrival, Eleanor begins
inserting herself into Uri’s story. So much so that she eventually
becomes one of its main characters. And while Uri is dismayed and, at
times, exasperated by this turn of events, he’s also grown
accustomed to Eleanor’s company and cooking, and, as such,
begrudgingly puts up with the semi-appropriation of his
memoir.
Though what remains imperceptible to Uri—until
the novel’s final, thrilling pages—is that Eleanor's appearance
in his life wasn't coincidental; it was manufactured by her. And that
the two have been intricately linked since the day he marched into
the concentration camp.
Brian Prousky’s dazzling new
book is memoir-writing turned on its head. It’s a story about
storytelling itself. About the power of language to shape and
misshape history. And about the equal perils of sharing and not
sharing deep-held secrets.
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Brian Prousky spent most of his life as two distinct people. The first held a day job and raised a family and was public and sociable. The second ruminated over sentences and wrote books in secret and dreamed of a living a literary life. They shared little in common, mostly their obsessions: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Mozart, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolano, tennis and hockey.
Somehow, summoning up a kind of courage or resolve he’d assumed was absent from his DNA, the first Brian Prousky left his day job, revealed his secret and dedicated himself full-time to writing. And the two Brian Prouskys became one. Now the author of five novels, a collection of short stories and two books of poetry, he lives and works in Toronto, where most of his characters, who struggle with secret and often conflicted lives of their own, and who never quite fit in, do as well.
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